afford是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 付得起; 冒险; 供给，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan's party was not so numerous that it could afford to sacrifice another member of it.
-- He felt for the tufts and grass and shrubs able to afford a foothold; tried them and then placed Lady Helena's foot on them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ptitsin was able to afford some particulars as to Rogojin's conduct since the afternoon.
-- He was certainly much changed, as anyone could see who had not met him for some time; and this fact seemed to afford Aglaya a good deal of satisfaction.
-- 'Now, Gania,' cried Varia, frightened, 'we can't let him go out!We can't afford to have a breath of scandal about the town at this moment.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stretch of the shore, wide though it was, did not afford room for all the ships, and the host was cramped for space, therefore they had placed the ships in rows one behind the other, and had filled the whole opening of the bay between the two points that formed it.
-- Come, then, my son, within the city, to be the guardian of Trojan men and Tro-jan women, or you will both lose your own life and afford a mighty triumph to the son of Peleus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To move to fresh apartments would have meant delay; altogether I had barely twenty pounds left in the world, for the most part in a bank and I could not afford that.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, after a short pause, he added: 'These hills afford us every opportunity of reconnoitering your works, messieurs, and I am possibly as well acquainted with their weak condition as you can be yourselves.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was first necessary to select the trees which would afford a strong and supple bark for the work.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the parlour window of this little habitation, which is so close upon the footway that the passenger who takes the wall brushes the dim glass with his coat sleeve much to its improvement, for it is very dirty in this parlour window in the days of its occupation by Sampson Brass, there hung, all awry and slack, and discoloured by the sun, a curtain of faded green, so threadbare from long service as by no means to intercept the view of the little dark room, but rather to afford a favourable medium through which to observe it accurately.
-- Nobody was rendered more indignant by these proceedings than Mr Sampson Brass, who, as he could by no means afford to lose so profitable an inmate, deemed it prudent to pocket his lodger's affront along with his cash, and to annoy the audiences who clustered round his door by such imperfect means of retaliation as were open to him, and which were confined to the trickling down of foul water on their heads from unseen watering pots, pelting them with fragments of tile and mortar from the roof of the house, and bribing the drivers of hackney cabriolets to come suddenly round the corner and dash in among them precipitately.
-- 'All I know, my dear feller,' said Mr Chuckster, running his fingers through his hair, 'is, that he is the cause of my having stood here twenty minutes, for which I hate him with a mortal and undying hatred, and would pursue him to the confines of eternity if I could afford the time.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There is no knowing what THEY may expect," said the lady, "but we are not to think of their expectations: the question is, what you can afford to do."
-- "Certainly and I think I may afford to give them five hundred pounds a-piece.
-- A great deal too handsome, in my opinion, for any place THEY can ever afford to live in.
-- Their arrival seemed to afford him real satisfaction, and their comfort to be an object of real solicitude to him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We see man far removed from the lairs of the jungles, his innate instincts dulled by too near an approach to free-will, his free- will not sufficiently developed to replace his instincts and afford him perfect guidance.
-- They can afford to pay it, as much business as I turn in.
-- He smiled when he saw that she took him seriously, and he thought what a chance it would afford for a possible junket of a week or two.
-- "Well, she can afford it as long as he puts up for it," returned Hurstwood.
-- He had treated her badly, but he could not afford to make up.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The price of the paper was two dollars a year, but he took in three subscriptions for half a dollar apiece on con- dition of them paying him in advance; they were going to pay in cordwood and onions as usual, but he said he had just bought the concern and knocked down the price as low as he could afford it, and was going to run it for cash.
-- He says: 'If gentlemen kin afford to pay a dollar a mile apiece to be took on and put off in a yawl, a steam- boat kin afford to carry 'em, can't it?'
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